A locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language, country and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface.
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Does (should) LC_COLLATE affect character ranges?
Collation order through LC_COLLATE defines not only the sort order of individual characters, but also the meaning of character ranges. Or does it? Consider the following snippet:
unset LANGUAGE ...
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set LC_* but not LC_ALL
I'd like to have a German (Austria) locale (A4 paper size, 24 hour time, yyyy-mm-dd), but an English-language user interface (I don't like poor translations). I figured that the correct way to achieve ...
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Understanding Unix file name encoding
I have a hard time understanding how the file name encoding works. On unix.SE
I find contradicting explanations.
File names are stored as characters
To quote another answer:
Several questions about ...
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What's the default order of linux sort?
For a long period I think the default behavior of sort program is using ASCII. However, when I input the following lines into sort without any arguments:
#
@
I got:
@
#
But according to the ...
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What charset encoding is used for filenames and paths on Linux?
Does it depend on what file system I use? For example, ext2/ext3/ext4 but also what happens when I insert one of those "joliet" CD-ROMs with ISO 9660? I've heard that POSIX contains some sort of spec ...
